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Intelligent Oil and Gas Operations

You need a partner that has scale and products that connect together easily and grow with your needs. But that's not all. You need solutions that help you predict the future—to proactively see problems across your operations before they happen.

GE is that partner. We understand your industry like no other. And our proven portfolio of oil and gas products—from field controls to advanced predictive monitoring—work together to deliver the performance you need to stay ahead. With our expertise and Industrial Internet-enabled solutions, oil and gas companies are transforming their business performance. They're getting smarter and pushing the boundaries on asset and operational optimization.

Sign up for the "Catch of the Week." Each "catch" is a customer success story that describes an equipment problem that our IPRC identified early by using our predictive analytics software—and the benefits the customer received.

Turn Data into Insight

With dispersed assets onshore and offshore, you need to monitor, manage and distribute tremendous volumes of field data—from the wellheads to the control room and data at the enterprise level. Our Proficy Historian Analysis software helps maximize the value of your data with powerful analytics. Thus, you can make decisions better, faster and smarter.

“You need to lay the foundation. That's not as sexy as the analytics that have an impact on your balance sheets. However, if you have the foundation set up, your ability to accelerate up that value continuum increases exponentially.”

Jim Walsh, General Manager,
GE Intelligent Platforms, Software and Service

Enabling Your Workforce

The face of the O&G workforce is changing drastically. And so are the tools needed to support them. With demand for anytime anywhere access to information, especially on tablets and smartphones, mobile solutions for the workforce are not a luxury but a critical necessity.

That's where GE's Real-time Operational Intelligence (RtOI) comes in. Our RtOI solution empowers workers by delivering the right information to the right people at the right time. It turns vast amounts of raw data into simple, actionable knowledge, so your workforce can share more info in context and at all levels of your organization—from the control room to the oil fields.

Hence, you can optimize your asset performance, processes and profitability.

Control in the most difficult environments

Where extreme areas of operation are often the norm, you can count on GE Intelligent Platforms' industry expertise and automated equipment to operate with utmost safety, reliability and certainty in any conditions.

HART Pass-through

HART pass-through communications on the PACSystems* RX3i control platform provides simpler and more secure remote communications with HART devices and instruments via the Industrial Internet. By incorporating HART communications into the control layer of the architecture, you can conduct remote, real-time optimization, troubleshooting and diagnostic testing without the need for intermediary devices such as handhelds and multiplexers. More information from fewer devices helps to streamline operations, improve decision making, and reduce maintenance costs.

SIL 3 - Mark* VIeS Safety Management System

SIL 2 – PAC8000 Remote Terminal Unit (RTU)

A unique wellhead monitoring and control solution that enables you to monitor, diagnose and maintain your utility assets—even in the most hazardous environments. And the capabilities of our SIL 2 functional safety system deliver reliable control and safety on a common platform.

PLC and Edge Devices

A range of controllers specifically targeted at process industries and designed to operate in the harshest and most hazardous environments, delivering precise control and bump-less redundancy to ensure process optimization and availability.

Mark* VIe Control System

Fast, flexible power that is ready when you need it

Our Mark* VIe control system is the brain in the TM2500+ Aeroderivative gas turbine generator set. The TM2500+ can support you reach your electrification goals, provide bridge power solutions for growing demand, bring power to remote areas, respond quickly to urgent power situations.

See it before it happens

With both the right data management foundation and monitoring software, our customers can anticipate impending problems before they happen. This enables the shift from costly reactive maintenance to efficient planned maintenance.

Increase measurement accuracy and process control

Increase enterprise visibility into critical parameters

Monitor, manage and distribute tremendous volumes of field data—from the wellheads to the control room. Moving from data acquisition to complete integration of real-time enterprise information enables better decision making and faster responsiveness.

Drive safety, quality and productivity in the harshest environments

Our PAC8000 SafetyNet TUV certified SIL 2 functional safety system, which combines control and safety on a single, scalable platform—delivering a critical advantage for FPSOs. It has received Lloyd’s Register approval for environmental categories ENV1, ENV2 and ENV3.

Increase uptime and reliability with integrated safety and control

As exploration moves into more remote locations, safe and effective centralizedremote management are critical. Increasing uptime in both new and existing fields while reducing capital and operational expenditures to increase return on investment can deliver a strategic competitive advantage.

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Each "catch" is a customer success story that describes an equipment problem that the center identified early for a GE customer by using our predictive analytics software—and the benefits the customer received.

Reach remote oil fields and monetize gas flaring

GE’s TM2500+ solution can significantly reduce diesel consumption, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions by converting well head petroleum gas into power. The TM2500+ offers mobility and flexibility for onsite power generation.

With legacy TMR systems, depending on the specific type of failure, processes would often be operating at a higher risk level until the faulty element can be replaced during an outage. In the true TMR system especially with the stringent regulations of late, the system should maintain an SIL 3 rating through a hardware fault tolerance of one, meaning that for any single element failure, the SIL rating should not be impacted. Even for multiple component failure, depending on the components and the configuration of the system, SIL 3 level may be maintained.

In today’s world of brilliant machines, operators require high-performance automation solutions that seamlessly connect their machines, data, and people while ensuring the safety and integrity of their process and equipment.

GE’s Oil & Gas manufacturing facility in Florence, Italy manufactures and supplies turbines, compressors and other equipment that supports critical Oil & Gas applications. The Florence plant has been designated as one of seven GE “brilliant showcase” sites; engineers and designers in the Florence plant use sensors and secure cloud connectivity to optimize production by leveraging real-time data and analysis from the factory floor.

PAC8000 Controllers are designed specifically to provide a solution where a controller needs to be field mounted in the extreme environments found in process applications. The PAC8000 Controller consists of a Process Controller, Logic Controller, and Hybrid Controller which combines the capabilities of both.

QuickPanel+ is the multi-functional interface for the Industrial Internet. It integrates process control, view, and an option to run embedded data historian to improve real-time control and simplify integration into plant-wide systems.

Predict failures before they happen With Proficy SmartSignal, a predictive analytics software, you can identify what is going to fail, what is the apparent cause of the failure, and what is the priority of the...

GE is a leading provider of automation and controls technology and services for power generation, distribution and adjacent applications across industry. Our differentiated Industrial Internet solutions enable customers to optimize equipment performance and ensure reliable and efficient operations by connecting their machines, data, insights and people. Our dedicated team includes some of the best minds in automation capable of solving our customers’ toughest challenges.

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